THE MAY ISSUE OF STANFORD BUSINESS magazine is now on newsstands. It can also be viewed online at http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag.

GLOBAL VIEW

THE BUSINESS SCHOOL'S NEW CENTER for Global Business and the Economy tackles economics and multinational business on a worldwide scale through research, teaching and community outreach:

*Capturing the Contours of a Global Economy

*The Business of Fighting Poverty

*Latin American Conference Looks at Changes

ALUMS TAKE TO THE PEN

AUTHORING EVERYTHING FROM FICTION and history to advice on estate planning, Graduate School of Business alumni demonstrate they can write more than memos and business plans.

*Alumni Bookshelf: The Latest Alumni Authors

*Walt Disney's Revolution, by Buzz Price, MBA '51

*Preparing Heirs to Run Family Fortunes, by Victor Preisser, MBA '64

WORK TEAMS

DIFFERING VIEWS IN A GROUP DECISION -making setting often result in a more thorough, open-minded team, research shows.

*Differing Views Cultivate Better Decisions

*Gains Worth Pains of Diversity

LEADERSHIP

ARBUCKLE AWARD WINNER CALLS FOR restoring action to ladder of upper mobility for Americans.

COUNTERPOINT

PFIZER CHIEF HANK MCKINNELL, MBA '67, PhD '69, examines the cost of medicine, which was the topic of a faculty research article in a previous issue of Stanford Business.